Foreign Girl Tales

Season one recap with your hosts Faven & Mable.

Coming to America at the tender age of 17, Russian born Sofia, shares her journey of figuring it out as a teenager.

Fiskani is a Zambian born fashionista whose drive and passion took her from admiring to dressing the biggest starts in the music/movie industry.

Meet Georgii Speakman, A daring and inspiring Australian who has been living and working in Los Angeles, CA for the past 7+ years.

Meet Petya Nova, our neutral Bulgarian born American citizen living her best life!!

Meet Saadia Raja, Pakistani born, Houston raised and Atlanta resident with a zest for life and love. Raja is a content creator with a finance background. A chai addict with a taste of food life, dancing her way through life with a sunshine state of mind.

This episode was recorded three days prior to former Minneapolis Police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck was charged with a new, more serious count of second-degree murder, and the three other officers on scene during his killing were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder.On this episode we discuss what it’s like to be black in America, and the history of racial injustice and police violence with our friends Keisha Williams & Jay Anthony.

Helping Americans embrace refugees & immigrants again!Ted Terry served as the Mayor of the most ethnically diverse square mile in America: Clarkston, Georgia from January 2014 – March 2020. Ted is the youngest Mayor in Clarkston’s 135-year history. With more than 17 years of experience in public service, Ted is leading Clarkston’s vision to become a more welcoming and compassionate community.Clarkston is home to 50 different nationalities, 60 languages and many refugee resettlement programs. It’s been referred to as the “Ellis Island of the South” for its dense population of refuges & immigrants.

Grace Lee is a serial entrepreneur and calculated risk-taker with deep food & beverage industry knowledge. Her passion and clarity of vision have carried many businesses through rapid and continual growth resulting in her “Power 30 Under 30” award for professional excellence.Profoundly driven and her resilient work ethic lead Lee to open her first restaurant, Cruzado in 2011 in Atlanta. After her first year, she opened her second location in Midtown, Hookah Cru, which quickly emerged as Atlanta's top-rated hookah lounge & bar. In 2015, she sold both to become an investor full time. Since moving to New York in 2018, she has continued to expand her Atlanta business portfolio opening The James Room, a speakeasy cocktail bar and coffee shop, & in March she opened Café Casa, another cafe partnered with notorious CARE, inc. a nonprofit that has been serving globally for 75 years. Her investments now span from restaurants and bars to fin-tech, environmental, & tech startups.

Feven Ghebreyesus, 26, was born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 4, 1993. The child of two immigrant parents from Eritrea. She has dreams of succeeding at entrepreneurship with her first business, The Hair Bandits, while also balancing college and working in the night life industry

Born in Zimbabwe to Indian parents, Dr. Bindiya Gandhi was raised in Canada and moved to the US at the age of 14. She currently lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and two children. Dr. Bindiya Gandhi is double boarded by the American Board Family Medicine as well as the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Physicians. She's a wellness expert and content contributor to numerous online sites like MindbodyGreen, Well+Good, Clean Plated and more.

Vlada Galan:Vlada Galan is a Senior Vice President in Mercury’s London office. She is an acclaimed political strategist, who has advised, managed and consulted for various political campaigns, heads of state and international organizations across five continents. Vlada specializes in Prime Minister and Presidential elections, and crisis management for national governments.Vlada was born in Odessa, Ukraine and immigrated to the United States at eight years old and grew up in Atlanta. She received her B.A. in political science from Georgia State University and continued her education at Harvard University in International Relations. She enjoys guest speaking at universities and national conferences on public affairs and international politics.

Meet the co-hosts of Foreign Girl Tales, Faven Ressom and Mable Abraham, two immigrants from two continents with different stories, but similar experiences.